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AM.MN: Norm Coleman atop GOP ticket would be “spitting in the face” of Tea Party voters

By Chris Steller | 01.11.10 | 8:00 am

am.mn logoA Norm Coleman run for governor would be an insult to the party’s Tea Party faction, according to a Republican of recent vintage who took the mic at a Saturday GOP fundraiser in St. Cloud. “If we put you…

AM.MN: No sofa change left for you, Minnesota Vikings

By Chris Steller | 01.05.10 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoThe Minnesota Twins got the public to fund their ballpark back in the good old days, when Hennepin County residents were rolling in the sofa change that paid for Target Field via a new sales tax. Now the county…

AM.MN: Senators say riding bikes beneath stadium isn’t stimulating

By Chris Steller | 12.10.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoWhat is it about riding a bike under a baseball stadium that Tom Coburn and John McCain don’t understand? The senators decried federal stimulus spending to extend the Cedar Lake Bike Trail into downtown Minneapolis,…

Pollution agency won’t rule yet on petitions for Hennepin burner study

By Chris Steller | 10.08.09 | 12:18 pm

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) won’t take a position — yet — on whether to require a new environmental study before Hennepin County’s downtown Minneapolis incinerator can burn more trash, because the agency doesn’t have a pending application for the project.

Leslie Davis was right: Keeping burner’s stink out of ballpark will cost county

By Chris Steller | 01.30.09 | 3:41 am

Hennepin County commissioners learned Thursday that they’ll have to pay $500,000 to stop the stink from the county’s downtown garbage burner from entering the new, county-sales-tax-funded, open-air Minnesota Twins stadium next door. It’s exactly the kind of thing environmental activist Leslie Davis predicted when he sued for further environmental study of the Twins’ ballpark plans.